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He had lived more on the water than on the land in that wild boyhood of his; a boyhood in which books and professors had played but small part. Montesma's school had been the world, and beautiful women his only professors. He had learnt arithmetic from the transactions of bubble companies; modern languages from the lips of the women who loved him.
Every hour adds unto that current arithmetic, which scarce stands one moment.
With all his puissance it was not in his power to make Jeromes and Augustins; but he laid the foundation, in the cathedral churches and the great monasteries, of episcopal and cloistral schools for the education of ecclesiastics, and carrying his solicitude still farther, he recommended to the bishops and abbots that, in those schools, "they should take care to make no difference between the sons of serfs and of free men, so that they might come and sit on the same benches to study grammar, music, and arithmetic."
"He went to the district school," went on grandma, "and learned to read very quickly, and his mental arithmetic was really wonderful. Long examples that the others did on their slates, he did almost as quickly in his head.
Peacocke and the three other ushers playing cricket with ten or twelve of the bigger boys of the school. There was a French master, a German master, a master for arithmetic and mathematics with the adjacent sciences, besides Mr. Peacocke, as assistant classical master. Among them Mr.
Finally, she persuaded a little girl, only six years old, to take her dusky face out of the long flowing veil of the nun, and show how quickly she could read a sentence that Sister Winifred wrote on the blackboard. Then others were called on, and gave examples of their accomplishments in easy arithmetic and spelling.
"Miss Pink," she said one morning a few days after lessons had begun again, "I don't want to learn any more arithmetic." "No, my dear?" said Miss Pink, mildly. "But what will you do when you are grown-up if you cannot count everybody needs to know how to count, or else they can't manage their money." "I don't want to know how to manage my money," replied Rosy, "somebody must do it for me.
He became an expert in nautical terms. He walked in knots, and even ordered a new carpet in fathoms after the shop-keeper had demonstrated, by means of his little boy's arithmetic book, the difference between that measurement and a furlong. "I'll have a voyage before I'm much older," he remarked one afternoon, as he sat in the captain's sitting-room.
T. Tembarom in the same situation would probably have said, "This is the place where T. T. sits down a while to take breath and count things up on his fingers. I am not a sharp on arithmetic, and I need time lots of it." Mr. Hutchinson's way was to bluster irritatedly. "Aye, aye, I see that, of course, plain enough. I see that." And feel himself breaking into a cold perspiration.
And even in these early days she showed a trait of character for which she afterwards became remarkable; that is to say, she learned the whole of the facts of a case before she formed an opinion on its merits listened and observed uncritically, without prejudice and without personal feeling, until she was fully informed. Life unfolded itself to her like the rules of arithmetic.
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